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    Between the Signal and the Noise
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  • George de Mohrenschildt: I Am a Patsy!
  • Jim Garrison: Interview with Playboy
    • 1: Accusations Against Garrison
    • 2: The New Orleans Investigation
    • 3: CIA and the JFK Assassination
    • 4: Facts of the JFK Assassination
    • 5: Lee Oswald and Guy Banister
    • 6: Oswald’s Role in the Conspiracy
    • 7: The Shooting in Dealey Plaza
    • 8: The Murder of Officer J.D. Tippit
    • 9: Lee Harvey Oswald and the FBI
    • 10: Gordon Novel and the CIA
    • 11: Jack Ruby
    • 12: David Ferrie
    • 13: Jim Garrison’s Political Views
  • Bill Hicks: JFK Assassination Routine

Garrison and Playboy

This interview, between Jim Garrison and Eric Norden, was first published in Playboy magazine in October 1967.

It is a very rare example of a relatively mainstream publication allowing a contrary view of the JFK assassination to be expressed at length and without misrepresentation.

This Version

The text of the interview was placed online some time ago at maebrussell.com and later, for some reason, at a holocaust denialist website. It is reproduced here for the first time in correct HTML.

As Playboy states in its introduction, the interview took 12 hours. The transcript is around 30,000 words, almost the length of a short book. For ease of access, this version has been split into several parts, and headings have been added.

Garrison’s Interpretation

By the time Jim Garrison’s investigation hit the headlines in 1967, the lone–nut explanation of the assassination had been solidly debunked by researchers such as Sylvia Meagher, Harold Weisberg and Josiah Thompson.

Although Garrison uncovered some good information about the New Orleans aspect of the assassination, his notions about the nature of the conspiracy were never widely supported.

Given the lack of reliable evidence about the details of the shooting, Garrison’s speculations in this area are no more credible than those of anyone else.

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